October 2010 Blog Posts (7)

Ask and you shall recieve, well sometimes. Thank you David W. Asche for offering the use of your fantastic stories for my website. It will take me a little time to paint your portrait and add some stories, but it will be done. If you e-mail me at kvbodoh@gmail.com with a easier way to communicate with you, i will advise you when your stories are posted on my website: www.vfwf.org THANK YOU once again, K.…

Send me: your story, about your navy experience, and i will paint your portrait and include it in my website gallery arts section. Check out www.vfwf.org or e-mail kvbodoh@gmail.com submit story and clear photo that i can work from. Close up of your face. Thanks, we need your story!!! K. Bodoh check out Commander Brian Bodoh from WI on site aboard U.S.S. Kennedy.

The USN recognizes that the conversations will happen online, with or without guidelines. Rather than fighting social media, the Navy has instead chosen to promote social media usage throughout the ranks.

Since I live in the state of Mass, where Obama got his great idea about the Health Care Bill, there is a real problem with finding good information concerning Medicare.

The number of Medicare Advantage plans available in Mass has dropped for 2011. In 2010 there were 3 pages of them with approximately 15 companies. For 2011, there are 4 insurance companies offering these plans in Mass.

I was active duty Marine Corps Aviation, MOS 6072. My 1st duty station was with HMA-169 at Camp Pendleton Calif, then went to NAS South Weymouth from 9/77 to 10/80. After that I was at MCAS El Toro with Det Mag 11, worked both at the HAMS level GSE and then QA for a couple years. Of the 3 duty stations I can honestly say that most of my best service memories where at South Weymouth, I still to this day remember the folks I served with both on active duty and Marine and Navy…

According to my fathers WWII journal: "Mon, Oct. 9, 1944. Passed the equator. Went through the initiation to become a shell-back. Shall always remember it". He was aboard the USS. South Dakota. Does anyone have anymore information about what that initiation was like or might have entailed??~

I'm looking for anyone that may be familiar with enlisted Navy Reserve personnel that were stationed at Special Boat Unit 22 toward the end of 1981 & beginning of 1982. I have had a shipmate that helped me remember the name of the YN1 that I have been looking for. Her name is Eileen Olszewski. She was USNR. Anyone that knows her or her whereabouts please pass along to her that I'd really like to make contact with her. Or give her my e-mail address. Any information…